Written soon after the publication of The OldGringo, this book is by an eminent researcher in Third-World studies.

Lanin Guyrko, "Twentieth-Century Literature," in Mexican Literature: A History, edited by David William Foster, University of Texas Press, 1994.

Contains sections about various genres in different eras of Mexican history. A good reference source for putting Fuentes in an historical context.

Kristine Ibsen, Author, Text and Reader in the Novels of Carlos Fuentes, Peter Lang Publishing, 1996.

Ibsen, the editor of a book about female authors in Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s, gives a detailed analysis of Fuentes's works and the ways in which they involve readers more than traditional fiction.

John Rutherford, Mexican Society during the Revolution: A Literary Approach, Oxford University Press, 1971.

Examines the revolution and its leaders as they are depicted in literature written at the time.

Cynthia Steele, Politics, Gender and the Mexican Novel...